Quotes with working-class

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  • Bell Hooks As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Barry McGee As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Britt Ekland Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Bono Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Dale Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • A. R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Beah Richards Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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